Re: AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

Currently in 4.1.7, Netatalk 2.1.3 is used. Hopefully the Netatalk developers will test the developer preview of OS X Lion and update the Netatalk project to use a version of afp compatible with Mac OS X Lion.

Then it'd be up to NetGear to decide whether to do the necessary backporting to support it on the Sparc platform and include it in a future firmware update.

Please bear in mind that NetGear only supports stable OSes, not beta/developer preview versions so tech support won't be able to help you with problems you encounter using it.

If AFP can't be updated to a version supported by Mac OS X Lion then I guess you'd need to use CIFS or NFS instead.

Re: AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

Thanks for the reply. I totally understand the not supporting unreleased OS's. It could technically be that when it is released it will support old versions of AFP. But I figured it was good to share some initial findings.

I think I have had my ReadyNAS for 2 maybe 3 years. To bad, it is looking that it may be unusable for me since I rely on the AFP. Technically I can access files via SMB, but AFP was serving a purpose. Oh well, may I'll just sell it and put some drives in the Mac Pro :/

Re: AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

I think Apple would be encouraging the move to using the newer versions of AFP. It's easier not to support outdated versions of AFP.

I don't know if newer versions of Netatalk are compatible with Mac OS X Lion or not. I'm not part of the Apple developer program so I can't test Mac OS X Lion.

Sparc ReadyNAS (e.g. Duo, NV, NV+) use firmware that has evolved from the original Sparc firmware that shipped on the first Sparc units released over 6 years ago. It has become necessary to backport things such as Netatalk. There is also the CPU to consider, Sparc ReadyNAS use a slow CPU, so the CPU needs of a new version of Netatalk would also need to be considered (I don't know if they've increased or not, but NetGear would find out when they do testing). Newer ReadyNAS (e.g. NVX, Ultra, Pro) use Intel processors and different firmware. These have much faster CPUs and are on the x86 platform. These would be far less likely to have issues with a Netatalk backport and could see a newer version of Netatalk earlier.

If experiences with Snow Leopard are anything to go by, it's best not to be an early adopter of a new Mac OS X major update as it may break functionality on the ReadyNAS. A firmware update with a newer version of Netatalk should help resolve issues and restore broken functionality. Minor OS updates from Apple can also help.

Re: AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

Just had a look at the GPL source code (http://www.readynas.com/gpl) for 4.2.15 for x86 ReadyNAS and it includes the necessary dhx2 user authentication module as does the GPL source code for 4.1.7 for Sparc. So I guess the modules are available, it could simply be a matter of NetGear installing them and configuring them properly if they haven't already.

So sounds like the situation may not be as bad as I thought it could be and hopefully it's a relatively easy thing to fix.

Re: AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

Just had a look around and I've determined that the dhx2 user authentication module is installed on x86 ReadyNAS in 4.2.15 but not on Sparc ReadyNAS in 4.1.7. Not sure why NetGear left it out. It could've been for performance reasons due to the slow Sparc CPU and not wanting to introduce additional overhead.

Re: AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

Wfm,ymmv. Use at your own risk After installation make sure to manually restart the AFP service using Frontview: "Services" -> "Protocols". Just disable and when finished re-enable. That's it. Same goes for de-installation of the add-on.

Re: AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

Uh, thanks for the info. Seems like PayPal created yet another option you have to set to enable international payments. Anyway, the donation stuff shouldn't have been in there in the first place, so I'm happy enough it works for you.

Re: AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

Thanks, WhoCares?, that seems to work when connecting to AFP shares. However, I'm still unable to use TimeMachine. Looking in the system.log file, it appears the 2.1.3 version of netatalk doesn't support server reply cache, which is now required by OS X Lion. I read somewhere that Netatalk 2.2 is supposed to support that feature. Unfortunately I haven't been able to compile Netatalk 2.2beta1 for the ReadyNAS due to the fact that the Debian Sarge release is just too old. For the life of me, I can't seem to get the Berkeley DB headers required for installation (libdb4.8-dev), and I have no other environment from which to build a binary. Anything you can do to help there?

Re: AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

Any chance of getting this to work on an x86 ReadyNas Ultra 4? I tried to upload and got invalid image message before realizing this is for a Sparc based box.Keith

WhoCares? wrote:

Ok, here we go:

LionAFPd_2.1.3-rns-0.1.2.bin

Wfm,ymmv. Use at your own risk After installation make sure to manually restart the AFP service using Frontview: "Services" -> "Protocols". Just disable and when finished -enable. That's it. Same goes for de-installation of the add-on.

Re: AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

cyberia625 wrote:

Thanks, WhoCares?, that seems to work when connecting to AFP shares. However, I'm still unable to use TimeMachine. Looking in the system.log file, it appears the 2.1.3 version of netatalk doesn't support server reply cache, which is now required by OS X Lion. I read somewhere that Netatalk 2.2 is supposed to support that feature.(...) Anything you can do to help there?

Re: AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

kteare that was also be the version of Netatalk. NetGear is highly unlikely to include Netatalk 2.2 in firmware whilst it's still in beta. Lion won't be out for months so NetGear would see no urgent need for a Netatalk update as they only support stable OSes not those in beta.

I guesss again your best hope would be for an add-on (e.g. by WhoCares?) to try in the meantime